About Full-Text Search

Enabling the Full-Text Search Feature

About Full-Text Search

The full-text search feature of Microsoft SQL Server is a specialized indexing and querying service for character-based data in Microsoft SQL Server database tables.

By default, the application database is configured to index these incident fields:

Owner

ProfileFullName

Resolution

Subject

Symptom

The full-text search feature is disabled by default.

Enabling the Full-Text Search Feature

This section describes how to enable and configure the full-text search feature of Microsoft SQL Server.

1.During Microsoft SQL Server installation, in the Feature Selection page of the Microsoft SQL Server setup wizard, check Full-Text and Semantic Extractions for Search.

2.In the Server Configuration page of the Microsoft SQL Server setup wizard, ensure that the Microsoft SQL Full-text Filter Daemon Launcher is configured with the local service account.

Server Configuration

3.In the Services panel for the system, ensure that the status for SQL Full-text Filter Daemon Launcher says Running.

Services Dialog Box

4.Verify that full-text search is configured in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio by doing the following:

a. Open the Files page from the Database Properties dialog box.
b. Ensure that Use full-text indexing is checked.
c. If it is not checked, verify that the full-text search services are running as described in In the Services panel for the system, ensure that the status for SQL Full-text Filter Daemon Launcher says Running.

 

Checking the Use Full-Text Indexing Option